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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT WHAT THE NEGRO PROBLEM IS NOT. Facts About Illiteracy Subject Considered From An Impersonal Point of View. Professor R. R. Wright In Sociological Treatment Of the Great Question Says It Is Not A Negro Problem is the Maladjustment Is Not Common to the Whole Group. FOURTEENTH YEAR WHAT THE PROBLE Facts About Subject Considered sonal Point Professor R. R. Wright In Of the Great Question gro Problem is the Not Common to Philadelphia,—Professor R. R. Wright Jr. has recently issued in book form extracts from his two lectures on the sociological attitude in the study of Negro problems, which he prepared for and delivered to the social study class at the university of Pennsylvania. The first part tells of the attitude which the social student ought to have in the study of race problems and the difficulties involved. The second part consists of an analysis of the Negro Problem. The lectures attracted considerable attention, being regarded as among the most philosophie and logical ever delivered on the subject at any of the leading colleges. Under the caption the "Study of Kace Problems" Professor R. Wright says: "In the study of the face in human activity the very condition of scientific value must be the accuracy and impartiality of the observation of students. For accurate observation the student must be tolerant and open minded. He must be widely acquainted with the history and condition of peoples in different parts of the world in order to be entirely rid of national, sectional, racial religious and political bias. "In spite of his race, religion and early education, he ought to be able to look at the facts of society entirely from an impersonal point of view. This is especially necessary in the study nationalities and races different from our own. We are very liable to underrate these people—to consider their mental and physical differences and mental and physical inferiorities: to call their religion heathenish; to look upon their racial tendencies as the downward if they are not as ours. This will give us a provincial philosophy, but nothing of real scientific value. --- "In what consists the particular and peculiar Negro race problem of which we hear much? A social problem may be said to exist with reference to any particular group when there is in any way maladjustment of that group with respect to its environment. This we must get clearly in our minds if we are to understand the problem of the Negro. Club Meetings. The Booker T. Washington Club met with Mrs. Abbie Williams on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 14, at her home on Blaine St. The program for the afternoon consisted of a short sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln, by Mrs. W. H. Jones, paper on St. Valentine day by Mrs. Louise Carter; it being domestic science day, a clyping on the art of cooking, was read and brought forth much discussion. Mrs. Grant G. Brown read a paper on "The Influence of Heredity." Special attention was given to this paper, as it was the one Mrs. Brown should have read before the Interstate which convened in our city dnring the holidays. The paper was excellent, full of thought and showed that the writer had spent much time in preparing it. We only regret that hindering causes prevented her from giving it to the public, at the time mentioned. After the program the guest and members present repaired to the dinning room when a two course luncheon was served. Guest present were:- Mrs. W. N. Miller, president of Mother's Aid Club. Mrs. B. Criffin, pres. of the W. T. Vernou Club. Mrs. Givings ,, B. Waters. ,, L. Henderson. They'll Treat You Right SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912. Consider The Condition As They are and not as they ought to be. Consider The Condition As They are and not as they ought to be. This Is Money For You And A Future For Your Offspring. Please pardon me for the unadulterated nerve we are taking to discuss a subject of this nature in our little folder. Feeling the time is at hand when the ancient idea should be branded with type of illiteracy and buried in the sea of antiquity, and the progressive idea should be the medicine prescribed for every family fireside. The importance of race pride engrafted in the minds of the future man and woman that they may see life in its purity and the sweet anthems overshadow their daily pursuit, then the wheel of time will begin to roll along the line of progress and change the conditions for brighter days. Reviewing the surrounding circumstances of a people, who have sold the birthright of their offspring, taught them to have no interest in home comfort, which is the most sacred place on earth, poison the mind of the little fellow against the race with whom he has to be identified, throws him upon the public highway unsurrounded with any future position, candidate for the city bastile and enroute for incarsecation to the common wealth of the country 1 which he lives for the sake of only one potato, and the poor fellow demourns and lamenting if that is the part he has to play under the protection of old glory, as she floats to and fro in the breeze of public sentiments, which is the medium by which all questions are settled in the garden spot of man and the home of the free. He becomes to be itinerate and drops in the way of the wrongdoer for easy riding. The result is that he is a criminal, and the question bespoken. The crime of that boy and the downfall of that girl rests upon the heads of the parents who have tortured him from the cradle to man and womanhood and teaching him that there is no future for the race which he represents, notwithstanding his grandfather and great grandfather were factors in clearing up the country in which he lives. The future of that boy is plotted for the sake of only one potato. There is mother in a meditating position with a bright-eyed daughter sweet as the lily of the valley, looking her in the face, who should be the pride of her heart, reviewing the prospective field, hoping by chance that some young man of marriageable age will drop in and propose to her, to become his better half that he may proclaim to the world that she is the mistress of the home which he represents. The future of that girl is blotted for the sake of only one potato. It is hurled from the holy sanctuary to deliver the goods; it appeals to me if the author of the thought was placed in the same attitude without the force of circumstances. It is a question: Could he deliver the goods? Oh, virtue, where art thou? Playing in some distant space under the great canopy of heaven beyond the reach of man. Are you in the reach of one who overshadows the little one in his infancy and teaching him to take the profits of his father's labor and give it to a people whose dog houses and outhouses and rummage houses are better houses than the one in which he lives, for the sake of only one potato. Consider the conditions as they ought to be. Those fleecy locks and dark complexion cannot forfeit nature's claim. Skins may differ, but the mechanism of all mankind is the same. No need of color line or segregating. We should be admissable to all religious assemblies and invited to all public inns and welcome to all public amendments and equal privilege and accommodations on all common cares as any other American born citizen, geradless of color or previous conditions. Men of the same rank, women of the same parment should walk breast to breast upon all lines pertaining to the vital interest of the commonwealth in which they live. Boys of the same attainment, girls of the same fitness, should share positions alike, regardless of previous conditions. And the achievement of position of the commonwealth would be obtainable by the fitness of the individual and we would be on an upward march for better conditions for ourselves and we could hope to share some of the political plums that comes by the gift of men. Consider the conditions as they are. We are consumers and not producers, we are laborers but not the favorite, imitators but not original, here but not wanted. There was once upon a time when we were the favorite sons of the following occupations: Barbering, shining parlors, cooking, portering, elevator boys, construction work, hod carrying and mortar making. But the future has changed the conditions, so we are loafers and street walkers. Shall we stop because the future has robbed us and placed foreigners in our former positions? Shall we give up all hopes and drift in the plains of idleness without considering the cause why prejudice is so high against a people whose grandfathers and great grandfathers gave the best part of their lives for the development of the country in which they live? The past has taught you that he needs ye not in the church going business, barbering business and the hotel business. If that is true of the past, he does not need you in any kind of business. But you take the profits of your labor and place them in a channel where you get no results, either direct or indirect, for the sake of only one potato. If I could only wake from their slumber such men as John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumpter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose bones are now bleaching in their graves, and who struck the first blow for freedom, then could only see a people who are deceiving and cheating their children out of a future for the sake of only one potato. Who is making any sacrifice to better the future condition of your boys and girls? Who is making any effort to establish any enterprises, make openings, positions, and fostering the future with the opulence for better opportunities? No, not one. CHAS. A. MORRIS. WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE. Remember Every Day Counts with a bad tooth. These prices February only. Dr. H. T. Bolden Dentist 513 N. Main St. Opposite Court-House. Pnone Market 4637Or Market 2467 A VERY SAD ENDING. A Negro Woman With A Taint of White Blood Deserts Her Race. The following from Judge Perkin's paper relates a sad story, but only what should be expected: "She was buried in the potter's field; no flowers from loying friends as a token of love and sympathy, scattered their sweet perfume around her bier; and no voice, voice choir nor solemn minister sung her praises to the sinners who stood by and knew the life of shame she led. "She was a beautiful woman, almost white in complexion and almost strait hair. The law said she was a Negro, but she wanted to be white, and she and her companions boasted that they had nothing for Negro men to do. And last week she died. "When she died, white men of course, were not sought to be her pall bearers, and Negro men refused: even the gambler and thieves in the red light district refused to bear the corpse to the hearse and in the cemetery. They TRADE WITH OUR ADVERTISERS NO.45 Pay Your Back Subscrip tion for the Searchlight. Since February is known to be the worst month in the year for Aching Teeth. I will give Extreme low prices to all during this month, Come and see me. Examination Free Gold Crowns Enamuel Crowns $3.75 Bridge Work Set Of Teeth $5 Teeth Cleaned .50ct. Amalgan Fillings .50ct. Cement Fillings .25ct. Day Counts with a bad February only. said it should be a white man's burden. And it was not until the body began to purge and end anger the purity of the air around that four husky colored men agreed to act as pall bearers at a dollar each and carried the wom an to an unmarked and silent tomb. 1102 N. Santa Fe On February 16th, 1912. a grand suprise party was given by the Cabbell Methodist Episcopal Church on brother. D. K. Mickleberry Leader of Class No. 1. Rev. G. T. Wooten master of ceremonies. Those present were. Pastor D. K. Mickleberry, Geo Prather Mrs. O. A. Briley, Mrs. M. Pinkney Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones John Belcner, Benton Harris, Mrs. Grace Hogan, Mrs. Irene Chapman, Julia White, Mr and Mrs. E. Carter, Mrs. Prather, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Nuelan, Mrs. Ida Jennings, Mrs. Julia Mickleberry, Deborah Mickleberry Mr. and Mrs. Will Johnson Jessi Mickleberry, D. K. Mickleberry and wife, and L. W. Wright. They'll Treat You Right --- CLEARS KANSAS LAND TITLES SUPREME COURT DECISION WILL EASE MINDS OF MANY. Thousands of Settlers on School Lands in State Awaited Out-Come of Suit. Topeka, Kansas.—The decision of the United States supreme court in the suit of Charles Reitler against w. A. Harris is of great importance to thousands of central and western Kansas people who have settled on school lands. All of it was bought on payments and when default was made the land was foretired back to the state. The state sold the lands a second time, and then some of the old settlers and original purchasers returned and ousted the second settlers because of irregular entries in the records. The Kansas supreme court held to the strict letter of the law and the original settlers got the land. The 1907 legislature enacted a law validating all the old forfeiture where the proper record shows a forfeiture had been made, even if the returns were not complete. Land speculators had bought up assignments from hundreds of original settlers and were forcing out the new settlers unless high prices were paid. The state validated the claims of the second purchaser. Charles Reitler held an assignment from the original owner of school land in Edwards county and W. A. Harris settled on the same land and bought it. Reitler brought a suit to oust Harris, but the Kansas supreme court held the law validating the old forfeiture good and the United States supreme court sustained this decision. Thousands of homes were waving in the balance awaiting the outcome of this suit. JOINT KEEPER WILL GO TO JAIL Galena Man Must Also Pay $500 Fine and $100 Fees to Attorney General. Galena, Kan.—James Patrick was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court in violation of the prohibitory law, He also will have to pay $100 fees to the assistant attorney general. George Leddington, one of Patrick's witnesses, is to be prosecuted for perjury and the building in which the joint was operated will be sold to satisfy the court costs. The case against Patrick was prosecuted by T. T. Burr, assistant attorney general, who caused numerous raids to be made. In one raid a wagon load of bottled beer was seized and Will Mitchell, Patrick's partner, was arrested. ARMY MANEUVERS AT FORT RILEY Troops From Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Will be Included in Plans. Washington, D. C.—Army maneuvers will be held at Fort Riley the coming summer. This announcement has just been made at the war department. In addition to the troops at Fort Riley and from Fort Leavenworth the national guard of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma will participate. The maneuvers will be along the lines of what is known as the "Massachusetts system." Officers of the department-state that the details as well as the time for the maneuvers would be arranged later by representatives of the department and the commanding officers of the central division. KANSAS BRIDGE WRECKED BY ICE Republican River Out of Its Banks at Morganville and New Dam in Danger. Clay Center, Kan.-Ice gorges and high water destroyed the bridge across the Republican river at Morganville. An 8-inch snow almost completely melting in 24 hours caused all streams to rise rapidly. Ice 20 inches thick, which covered the river, began breaking up as the water began rising. The Republican river went out of its banks, covering low fields and roads and threatening the new cement dam here. The water is now falling Aviators Had Unfortunate Day. Oakland, California.—The opening of an aviation meet at the old Emeryville race track near here was baptized with blood. William H. Hoff of San Francisco is in a hospital probably dying, and a half dozen of his fellow aviators, more fortunate than he in escaping from the wreckage of their machines, are nerving themselves to fly again. Children Die in Burning Home. Sapulpa, Oklahoma.—In a fire that destroyed the home of Frederick Clark here, two children, five and eight years old, were burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Clark and their oldest child were severely burned. Ohio Briber to Prison Columbus, Ohio.—Rodney J. Diegle, former sergeant-at-arms of the Ohio state senate, must serve three years in the penitentiary for aiding in the alleged bribery of State Senator L. P. Andrews. Member of Tar Party Paroled. Member of Tarp Party Parolee. Lincoln Center, Kan.-Judge Dallas Grover paroled Watson Scranton, who was confined in Lincoln county jail on sentence of a year for taking part in tarring Miss Mary Chamberlain at Shady Bend last August PLAYING TAG WITH HER AGAIN FAMILY MARKET BASKET HOUSEWIFE MAKE PRISON A PLAYGROUND MAKE PRISON A PLAYGROUND CONVICTS TO BE ORGANIZED IN- TO BASEBALL TEAMS. Government Will Furnish Masks and Equipment for Three Teams at Leavenworth Penitentiary. Leavenworth, Kansas.—A baseball league of three teams, composed of white, negro and Indian convicts, is to be organized at the federal prison. Deputy Warden Mackey issued an order to the guards asking their help in selecting convict players for the teams. Twenty-five men of each race will tryout for the teams. At the beginning of the season ten will be eliminated leaving 15 players in each team. The organizing of the league is in compliance with a recent suggestion of the department of justice to the superintendents of all federal prisons. Masks, bats, baseballs and all equipment will be furnished by the department. The suits will be made in the tailor shop of the prison here. The regular games probably will be played in the inclusion of the incomplete women's ward. That ward now is inclosed by three walls. A grandstand and bleachers will be built across the south end where the wall is not finished. A force of armed guards will be on the ground at every game. Practice will begin March 1. Season tickets will be issued to all the convicts. These tickets will be withdrawn from the men for any breach of prison discipline. Several professional ball players and a number of ex-Carlisle players are in the prison. HOLDS UP GAS COMPANY MONEY Arkansas City, Kan., Gets Court Order Setting Aside 25 Per Cent of Collections. Arkansas City, Kan.—Judge Swarts of the district court at Winfield granted a temporary injunction against the Arkansas Valley Gas company now doing business in this city from violating the provisions of its franchise with the city and ordered the company to set aside 25 per cent of the money collected from consumers during the depression in gas to be used in repaying the users of gas provided the case finally is decided against the company. The 25 per cent of the collections which is to be impounded upon the order of the court is to be set aside from the money taken in from December 5, 1911, to January 25, 1912. Kansas Land Law Upheld. Washington, D C.—The supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the Kansas statute placing the burden on the landholder of proving a defective return on notice of forfeiture for non-payment of taxes on "school lands." The point arose in the suit of Charles Reitler against William A. Harris and is said to affect title to thousands of acres of Kansas lands. Offer Persia a Million. Teheran.—An Anglo-Russian note has been presented to the Persian government. It embodies an offer of a loan of $1,000,000 to be secured on the customs, to enable Persia to arrange terms for the exile of the exshah, Mohammed Ali Mirza, and his brother, Salar Ed. Dowleh. Kansas Masons Elect. Topeka, Kansas.—The 47th annual convocation of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons has completed its work here. Harry E. Priest, Manhattan, was chosen grand high priest. Three Babies Die in Fire. Chickasha, Oklahoma.-The farm home of Thomas E. Lemon, east of this city, burned and three children, a girl 4 years old, a boy 2 years old and a 3-months-old infant were burned to death. Keeps Hoboes Outside: San Diego, California.—The city has barred the unemployed. A camp has been established outside Sorrento to ward off the "invasion" and to which men seeking work are conducted and given assistance. MORE PRIVILEGES FOR CONVICTS Kansas Prisoners Permitted to Smoke in Their Cells to Make Them More Contented. Leavenworth, Kansas.—Convicts at the state prison have been given permission to smoke in their cells after each meal. Warden Codding gave them this privilege and smoking began at once. The reason the warden gives for granting them this privilege is that it will make the men more contended Often men have been unable to work for weeks after they came to prison because of the condition their nervous system is thrown into when tobacco is taken from them. It is thought that by furnishing a weekly ration of tobacco that will allow no more than three smokes a day the effect will not be noticeable and that the habitual users will not be thrown into such bad condition when they first enter the prison. The warden will give this privilege a thorough trial. The amount of the tobacco ration will be governed by a prisoner's behavior. TELEPHONE COMPANIES MERGED St. Louis Stockholders Meeting Electors Directors Representing Capitalization of Over $100,000,000. St. Louis, Missouri. — The Telephone companies in 11 middle western states, with a combined capital exceeding $100,000,000 were united in St. Louis at the annual stockholders' meeting of the Bell Telephone company of Missouri. Officials of telephone companies in the 11 states were elected to the Bell of Missouri directorate to succeed five St. Louis insurgents who recently capitulated to the domination of the $50,000,000 American Telephone and Telegraph company, which is the parent concern. THE KANSAS CITY LAND SHOW A Great Soil Products Exposition in Convention Hall From February 26 to March 9. Kansas City. Missouri.—This city is to have a great land show and exposition of the products of the soil at Convention hall for two weeks, beginning Monday, February 26, and ending Saturday, March 9. There will be lectures illustrated by moving pictures on farm life, soil conservation, irrigation methods of interest and importance to the public generally. The show will be open every day from 10:30 a. m. to 11:20 p. m. Only a small admission fee will be charged. To Repair Oldest Road. Washington, D. C.—What probably is the oldest highway in America still in use is just about to be modernized and put into first class condition with a good layer of macadam by the American engineers on the Isthmus of Panama. This is a road built about 1530 over the old Cruces trail on which pack trains traveled between the old city of Panama and a poin on Chagres river, where goods were loaded into boats and floated down to the Gulf of Mexico. Gen. Ainsworth Retires Washington, D. C.-Adj. Gen. Frederick C. Ainsworth who was relieved of his office on charges assumed to be those of conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline was placed on the retired list on his own application. That precludes possibility of a court-martial. President Taft approved Gen. Ainsworth's application because of the officer's 37 years of service. Murderer Chooses Shooting. Salt Lake City, Utah.—Death by shooting was selected by Harley McWhinney when the court, before passing sentence, asked him how he preferred to die for the murder of C. L. Erickson October 6, 1911. Oklahoma Hermit Slain Muskgoose, Oklahoma—Robert Steer, a farmer who lived alone near Chimney Rock, 12 miles south of Muskgoose, was murdered and robbed in his home. A posse with bloodhounds failed to find any clew. AT THE WICHITA THEATRES. "THE THREE TWINS." At the New Crawford, Wichita, Matten and Night, Saturday At the New Crawford, Wichita, Matinee and Night, Saturday, March 2. "The Three Twins" is a welcome visitor, season after season, because it is a sweet, pure, funny play that will amuse all ages and classes of theatergoers. With a plot that would sound ordinary in the telling, it holds the attention of everyone until the finish, and when least expected the risibilities of everyone is tickled by some unexpected situation or flash of wit. It never tired because it is natural, and yet the quaintest thing that was ever put on the stage. Critics have tried to analyze the play and have failed because it is simply what the public want now-a-days, a light entertainment that amuses you when you see it, and gives you many a hearty laugh after you have gone home. This year the management has on one all its previous efforts in the way of mounting the play, both in the way of scenery and electrical effects and the costumes are the most gorgeous that have ever been prepared for a theatrical production. With the same big chorus of beauteous young girls, and with a cast of established favorites the season of this successful play has been one series of turn-away houses and the same thing will surely occur on Saturday, March 2, matinee and night. "Miss Nobody From Star Land." So many really good things have been said about that much raked off musical comedy, "Miss Nobody from Starland," which Mort H. Slager will present at the New Crawford, Wichita, Wednesday, Feb. 28, that play goes who have not seen this fascinating Hough, Adams and Howard success are eagerly awaiting an opportunity of seeing it. Olive Vall, well known for her success in this, as well as other Singer productions, will head a large cast of clever principals, and there will be a typical Singer chorus, that is, a lot of pretty girls who can really sing and dance. Aside from the many whistly numbers provided by Joseph E. Howard, and the spectacular production which dazzles in its scenic and costume display, the phenomenal hold that "Miss Nobody from Starland" possesses upon the public favor is largely due to its novelties. The opening act is on the deck of the great ocean liner, Lusitania. Here the delightful plot, with no end or surprises, is developed amidst a moving sea, an imposing array of pretty singing and dancing girls is lowered into the center aisle and down into the audience rushes the entire cast. Then there is the big dress rehearsal scene, a laughter-inspiring medium whereby the auditor is permitted to gaze behind the scenes and watch the frantic stage manager and his trembling (?) subjects, the players, give a final rehearsal of a new musical comedy. The scene has been universally voted the superlative in stage novelty. It is not the lack of other alluring novelties, but rather, lack of space, which limits further description of "Miss Nobody from Starland," which has for its sponsor a record run at the Princess theater in Chicago, and a triumphant tour including the larger cities. The Margy South Stock Co. The above company began a short engagement at the Lyceum theater on Monday, February 19, presenting a line of royalty plays that are new and up-to-date. Every play presented during the engagement will be given attention of detail and the performances are given with smoothness that denotes careful stage management. Two plays will be given eath week. For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of this week, and Wednesday matinee, a comedy drama entitled "The Midnight Express," and for the last half of the week and Saturday matinee, also at the Washington's birthday matinee, a heartful comedy drama of western life in four acts, "The Heart of the Rockies." Miss Margery South., who beads the company, is a clever little girl who has lots of talent, together with youth and the supporting company, is capable in every way. High class vaudeville between the acts, no long wait. Matinee prices always life to all. Night prices 10c, 20c. You can't pay more. "The House Next Door." Patrons of the Auditorium for week ending Feb. 24, will witness for the first time in Wichita, Mr. J. Hartley Manners' famous play, "The House Next Door," in which Mr. J. E. Dodson starred so successfully for a number of seasons. This is the play Mr. Wolfe has selected to produce at the dedication class banquet at the Consistory on Washington's birthday (Thursday night), so the Auditorium will be dark on that occasion. Walter Richardson will be seen in the part of Sir John Cotswold. It is an excellent chance for some fine character work and will try the ability of this popular leading man to the utmost. The play will be seen at the Auditorium every night this week, with the exception of Thursday. Beyond Understanding A young man just returned from college was out cycling one day when suddenly he came to a steep gradient. While he was descending he lost control of his machine and was thrown. Two men came and found him lying on the ground. When asked how it happened he replied: "Well, I came down that decline with the greatest velocity and lost my central gravity and was precipitated on the hard macadamized road." "Away, lad; let him alone," replied one of the men. "He's a foreigner." Teacher (disgustedly)—My boy, my boy, where is your intuition? Boy—I ain't got any. I'm only here a few days, and I didn't know what I had to git—Judge. A self-made man nearly always makes a play for a tailor-made wife. Splendid Crops in Saskatchewan (Western Canada) Stomach Blood and Liver Trouble Much sickness starts with weak stomach, and conse poor, impoverished blood. 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Writes today for our interesting booklet. --- FOR EVERY FAMILY MEDICINE CHEST To the head of every family the health of its different members is most important, and the value of an agreeable laxative that is certain in its effect is appreciated. One of the most popular remedies in the family medicine chest is a combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that is known to druggists and physicians as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. This preparation is mild and gentle in its action on the bowels, yet positive in its effect. A dose of Syrup Pepsin at night means relief next morning, while its tonic properties tone up and strengthen the muscles of stomach, liver and bowels so that these organs are able in a short time to again perform their natural functions without help. Druggists everywhere sell Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in 50c and $1.00 bottles. If you have never tried this simple, inexpensive, yet effective remedy, write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 201 Washington St., Monticello, Ill, and ask for a sample bottle. Dr. Caldwell will be glad to send it without any expense to you whatever. Styles in Ailments "Well, here I am," announced the fashionable physician in his breezy way. "And now what do you think is the matter with you?" "Doctor, I hardly know," replied the fashionable patient. "What is new?" When Your Eyes Need Care Sharp-Eared Maid. Wife--Our new maid has sharp ears. Hubby--Yes. I noticed that the doors are all scratched up around the keyholes. A QUARTER CENTURY Before the Public. Over Five Million Free Samples given away each year. The constant and increasing sales from samples proves the genuine merit of the sample. The appropriate power to be shaken into the shoes for Tired. Acknowledging. Tender feet. Helicases corns and bulbs of all pain. Sample FREE. Address. Allen S.Olmised. LeKoy, N.Y. At the Bank. "Your husband has stopped payment on your alimony check." "I know it, he no longer loves me." "I know it; he no longer loves me." PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. Fourrugest will mind nothing of ICHING. MINT-ANT. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 60c. A milkman may be as rich as his ream and still not be wealthy. Hadn't Brought It. YOU CAN ASSIST YOUR WEAK STOMACH back to its normal condition by taking a short course of It tones and invigorates, also prevents Poor Appetite, Indigestion, Heartburn, Costiveness, Colds, Grippe and Malaria. eat was the thresher's return from a Lloyd- dminister farm in the fields in that as well as other districts yielded sheaves of wheat to the acre. Other grains in proportion. hat units or a and ages. URGES JUSTICE FOR EMPLOYES President Favors Passage of Workmen's Compensation Act. SUBJECT OF SPECIAL MESSAGE Calls Attention to Great Injunction of Present System and Heavy Expense of Litigation Which Bill Eliminates. Washington.—President Taft sent the following message to congress: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the employers liability and workmen's compensation commission, authorized by Joint Resolution No. 41, approved June 25, 1910, "to make a thorough investigation of the subject of employer's liability and workmen's compensation and to submit a report through the president to the congress of the United States." The commission recommends a carefully drawn bill, entitled "A bill to provide an exclusive remedy and compensation for accidental injuries resulting in disability or death, to employees of common carriers by railroads engaged in interstate or foreign commerce or in the District of Columbia and for other purposes." This bill works out in detail a compensation for accidental injuries to employees of common carriers in interstate railroad business, on the theory of insuring each employee against the resulst of injury received in the course of the employment without reference to his contributory negligence and without any of the rules obtaining in the common law limiting the liability of the employer in such cases. The only case in which no compensation is to be allowed by the act is where the injury or death of the employee is occasioned by his wilful intention to bring about the injury or death of himself or of another, or when the injury results from his intoxication while on duty. It is unnecessary to go into the details of the bill. They are, however, most admirably worked out. They provide for a medical and hospital service for the injured man, for a notice of the injury to the employer, where such notice is not obviously given by the accident itself; for the fixing of the recovery by agreement; if not by agreement by an official adjuster, to be confirmed by the court, and, if a jury is demanded, to be The amount of recovery is regulated in proportion to the wages received and the more or less serious character of the injury where death does not ensue, specific provision being made, for particular injuries, in so far as they can be specified. The compensation is to be made in the form of annual payments for a number of years or for life. The fees to be paid to attorneys are specifically limited by the act. The remedies offered are exclusive of any other remedies. The statistical investigation seems to show that under this act the cost to the railroads would be perhaps 25 per cent more than the total cost which they now incur. The report of the commission has been very able and satisfactory, the investigations have been most thorough, and the discussion of the constitutional questions which have arisen in respect to the validity of the bill is of the highest merit. Three objections to the validity of the bill of course occur: In the first place, the question arises whether under the provisions of the commerce clause, the bill could be considered to be a regulation of interstate and foreign commerce. That seems to be already settled by the decision of the supreme court in the employers' liability case. The second question is whether the making of those remedies exclusive and the compelling railroad companies to meet obligations arising from injuries for which the railroad would not be liable under the common law, is a denial of the process of law which is enjoined upon congress by the fifth amendment to the constitution in dealing with the property rights. This question the report takes up and in an exhaustive review of the authorities makes clear, as it seems to me, the validity of the act. This is the question which in the court of appeals of the state of New York was decided adversely to the validity of the compensation act adopted by the legislature of that state. How far that act and the one here proposed differ, it is unnecessary to state. It is sufficient to say that the argument of the commission is most convincing to show that the police power of the government exercised in the regulation of interstate commerce is quite sufficient to justify the imposition upon the interstate railroad companies of the liability for the injuries to its employees on an insurance basis. The third objection is that the right of trial by jury guaranteed by the seventh amendment is denied. As a matter of fact the right is preserved in this act by permitting a jury to pass on the issue when duly demanded in accordance with the limitation of the act. I sincerely hope that this act will pass. I deem it one of the great steps of progress toward a satisfactory solution of an important phase of the controversies between employer and employee that has been proposed within the last two or three decades. The old rules of liability under the common law were adapted to a different age and condition and were evidently drawn by men imbued with the importance of preserving the employers from burdensome or unjust liability. It was treated as a personal matter of each employee and the employer and the employee were put on a level of dealing which, however it may have been in the past, certainly creates injustice to the employee under the present conditions. One of the great objections to the old common law method of settling questions of this character was the lack of uniformity in the recoveries made by injured employees, and the representatives of those who suffered death. Frequently, meritorious cases that appealed strongly to every sense of human justice were shut out by arbitrary rules limiting the liability of the employer. On the other hand, often by perjured evidence and the undue emotional generosity of the jury, recoveries were given far in excess of the real injury, and sometimes on facts that hardly justified recovery at all. Now under this system the tendency will be to create as nearly a uniform system as can be devised; there will be recoveries in every case, and they will be limited by the terms of the law so as to be reasonable. The great injustice of the present system by which recoveries of verdicts of any size do not result in actual benefit to the injured person because of the heavy expense of the litigation and the fees charged by the counsel for the plaintiff will disappear under this new law by which the fees of the counsel are limited to a very reasonable amount. The cases will be disposed of most expeditiously and the money will be distributed for the support of the injured person over a number of years so as to make its benefit greater and more secure. Of course the great object of this act is to secure justice to the weaker party under existing modern conditions, but a result hardly less important will follow from this act that I can not fail to mention. The administration of justice today in clogged in every court by the great number of suits for damages for personal injury. The settlement for such cases by this system will serve to reduce the burden of our courts one-half by taking the cases out of court and disposing of them by this short cut. The remainder of the business in the courts will thus have greater attention from the judges and will be disposed of with much greater dispatch. In every way therefore, the act demands your earnest consideration, and I sincerely hope that it may be passed before the adjournment of this session of congress. There accompanies the letter of transmittal of senator, Sutherland not only the report of the commission, but also the heafings of witnesses by the commission, all of which is here-with submitted. WILLIAM H. TAFT. The White House. GOVERNMENT SAYS HE IS DEAD Kansas Man Refused Civil War Pension Because of Error in Department Records. Topeka, Kansas.—The Topeka pension agency has received notice from Washington that William H. Cooper of Kansas City, Kan., while he may be very much alive, is dead officially and must remain so. Cooper formerly lived at Garnett and is trying to get a pension for service in the Civil war, but the government refuses to pay a pension to a dead man. In the fall of 1861 William H. Cooper joined the army and served until December 10, 1862, when he returned to Garnett on a furling. While at home he met and married his wife, who is still living. When his furlough expired he was ill and Samuel, his younger brother, went to Leavenworth and took his place in the army. The name was never changed and Samuel served in the war under the name of William. February 14, 1862, Samuel died of typhoid fever was brought to Garnett and buried. The government records show that it was William Cooper who died, because the name was never changed. When William applied for a pension it was denied him because the government record shows he is dead. Threw at Mule, Killed Son. Albertville, Alabama.—Becoming enraged with a mule in his yard, Jim Bodine, who lives near Guntersville, hurled a heavy stone at the animal. The stone missed the mule, but struck an 8-year-old son of Bodine, who was playing on a fence nearby. The lad fell to the ground dead. Says Husband is Embezzler. Hot Springs, Arkansas.—Mrs. Roy Stevenson caused the arrest of her husband, a St. Louis chauffeur charging him with embezzling $8,500. Previous to her marriage a week ago she was Mrs. Nell Philpot, a wealthy widow of Kansas City. Kirksville, Missouri.-William Orr, a retired farmer and a pioneer settler of Adair county, died at his home here on his 92nd anniversary. Mr. Orr, during a long illness, had been hoping he would live until his 92nd anniversary and had been strengthened by that hope. IDEAS FOR HOME BUILDERS BY WM.A.RADFORD. 2014 X Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he has been involved in all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 118 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A nearly square house design 24 feet wide by 30 feet long, with a cottage roof pitched rather low, is shown in the accompanying perspective and floor plans. This style of house is growing in popularity. In walking along the newer streets of Chicago, as well as in other cities, I notice a great many similar houses. It is a plan that offers a large amount of room in proportion to the material used in building. The nearer square you get a house, the more space you can enclose within the four walls. Every foot of wall costs money, especially during these times when the prices of almost all building materials must be picked from the top shelf. The general design of this house is simple and quite plain, yet its severity is relieved by ornamental effects secured through the wide, projecting eaves, the belt-course at the second-floor line, the location of openings, and the general sense of proper proportions and neatness. As a popular house, it is designed for economy in building; but, at the same time, comfort has not been sacrificed to save a few dollars. There is great economy, for instance, in making one chimney do for the kitchen range and heating apparatus. There is still further economy in putting the chimney in the middle of the house, and running it out through the roof at the highest point. THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM It costs less to shingle around a chimney at the ridge than any other place; the chimney is better supported; and it costs less to prevent water from rains or melting snow coming in around the chimney, when the latter goes through the roof at the peak, because there is no accumulation of water there such as you have to contend with down near the caves. You seidom see eight rooms laid out conveniently in a house that is only 24 by 30 feet. You must utilize every foot of space to the best advantage to secure so many rooms and still have them convenient. This is accomplish- PANTRY CLOSE MITCHEN 11'0" x 12'0" DINING ROOM 11'6" x 12'6" UP CLOSE PARLOR 10'0" x 11'0" LIVING ROOM 11'6" x 12'6" PORCH First Floor Plan. ed by enclosing the stairway in the center of the house, where it takes up very little room downstairs; while the upper landing is within easy reach of the doors of all four bedrooms and the bathroom. You cannot take up a great deal of space for halls in a small house, and still leave room for the requisites. A hallway is not absolutely necessary; and we dispense with it entirely in this plan downstairs, and reduce the dimensions of the upper hall to the smallest possible space. Still, when you study this plan, you cannot find any fault with it. It is not an expensive house, as it can be built for about $2,000; but when it is finished and nicely painted, it is by no means cheap looking. The old-fashioned idea of putting considerable expense on a house to make it look well, is no longer necessary; in- --- stead, a good appearance is secured by studying out good elevations and proportions that go well together. Cottage roofs like this were popular in Colonial days. They are easily made, and look especially well on a house as nearly square as this. Cheap help may be employed on such a roof, because it is all straight work. Anyone can cut the roof-boards and put on the shingles, after the boss carpenter lays out the rafters and puts them in place. This little house contains every convenience necessary for comfort. BED RM 8 x 12 BATH 5 x 8 BED RM 9'0" x 12'0" HALL CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE BED ROOM 13'0" x 14'0" BED ROOM 8'6" x 9'0" Second Floor Plan. It is just the kind of house that is needed by the great majority living in towns and cities—the great majority whom we might call the "common people"—people who want comfort, who want to live right and enjoy life as they go along. Lincoln once said, 2014 X "The Lord must love the common people, because he makes so many of them." Probably Lincoln considered that 90 per cent. of the population would naturally come under the definition "commor people." In my opinion the proportio is not very much different today. The common people are the kind to build up a community—the backbone and strength of the nation. We may require an uncommon genius occasionally as a leader; but for every-day dependence, the common people are just as important now as they were in Washington's or Lincoln's time. That is why I am so anxious to see more of these low-cost houses. When I see a man start in to build a low-cost house for himself, I know right off that that man intends to build a home and have it paid for in a short time, and that he will succeed. More of such houses means more comfort and more contented citizens. But while it is right and proper to be contented with the house you have, that does not mean that a person should not progress. A person may go from one step to another in house building, the same as in business; but it is difficult to feel happy and contented in a habitation which does not provide conveniences for doing one's work, and which is not comfortable in cold as well as in warm weather. It is quite an undertaking to build a house. It means, for most persons, years of hard work; but they are the happiest years to look back over. Success depends upon the start made. If a person uses the right kind of plan—one the most of which will be well within his means, and one that will be reasonably satisfactory when the house is finished—the chances of paying for the property and of soon having a home free of encumbrance, are very much better than when a more elaborate design is selected. The little details that go to make up a satisfactory house must not be overlooked. A house without a bathroom is a back number. No one wants a bedroom without a clothes closet, and it does not pay to try to do without hot and cold water both upstairs and down. When the plumber is at work it costs but a trifle more to have a pipe for hot water laid at the same time the cold water pipe is put in. There are other incidentals, but these are the most important. PROPER CARE OF SHIRTWAIST Attention to Details While Garment Is Being Ironed Is of First Importance. Iron the wristbands, neckband and any other stiff starched plaits or bands, first on the right side, then on the wrong side. This will give them the desired smoothness that ironing first on the wrong side would in some cases destroy. Lay the shirtwaist on the ironing board with the neckband directly in front of the ironer and parallel with the front edge of the table, stretch until smooth, and iron on the right side until partly dry, then on the wrong side, and finish on the right side. Proceed in the same manner with wristbands. Iron prints on the wrong side, if possible, because it gives them more nearly the appearance of new and prevents an undesirable gloss. When the neckband and cuffs are finished, lay the wrist on the board with the neck at the left hand, and iron the fronts, then the back. It is best to iron both fronts first, because they are often trimmed, and will look better and iron easier if not allowed to become dry. The back, too dry, being plainer, can be dampened with a cloth wrung from warm water. Iron well into the gathers and until dry. Do not iron across the seams, but close to them on either side, then press the seams by setting the iron directly on them. To iron the sleeve, fold at the seam and begin ironing at the seam side, being careful not to iron across the opposite fold, and thus form a crease. After ironing one side, loosen the two sides by slipping the hand between them, then turn the sleeve over and iron the other side. Now put the hand in the sleeve at the bottom and turn it so that the seam lies on the table and the unironed strip at the back or outside of the sleeve lies above it. With a small iron smooth out this portion, and, still using a small iron, slip it inside of the sleeve at the arm's eye, and iron the top of the sleeve in the gathers. If possible, iron the gathered portion at the cuff in the same way and iron the sleeves on the sleeve board. CARE OF HOME TREASURES Methods of Cleaning That Will Add to Their Appearance and Preservation. To clean old pewter, experts usually find it best to dip the plates and tankards, as the case may be, in a basinful of hot water in which soda crystals of borax have been dissolved. The water should be almost hotter than the hands can bear, and the pewter must be washed with a hard nail brush and plenty of soap. To make it shine there is nothing to equal ordinary metal polish of a reliable make, to which a few drops of petroleum have been added. The dishes must then be washed in warm soapsuds and finally rubbed when dry with powdered whiting, or while still wet with whiting paste. A paste of whiting, soap and milk is the best for dust-stained alabaster ornaments. The paste must be left to dry on, and then washed away, the surface being then dried with a cloth and then with a flannel. HAND CORN SHELLER Metal Lath on a Board. A very handy device for shelling corn, and especially popcorn, can be made of a 1-inch board on which is fastened a piece of metal lath. The edges of the metal lath are bound with a strip of wood nailed to the board.—Popular Mechanics. Shelf Papers. The next time you are cleaning the pantry shelves fold at least three newspapers the longest way of the full sheet, says the Indianapolis Star. Place them on the shelf with the fold in front and fit snugly. The next time you want a clean paper slip the edge of a knife along the fold of the outer sheet and remove the solled top. The remainder of the sheets will be left intact for future use, and much time and labor will be saved to the housewife. Dressing the Bed. The bed is receiving a good deal of dressing these days. One of the most splendidly apparelled ones has a cover with brocaded velvet center, a wide band of point de venise, and for the border a band of seal. A huge bow of old rose taffetta with fringed ends is laid across the bed near the foot. To Wash Chamois Skln. Wash chamois skin in warm soapsuds, rinse thoroughly in several warm waters, draw it through the hand to press the water out, hang in the air to dry. Pull thoroughly while drying, and when almost dry rub until soft and smooth.-Suburban Life. Waffles. Sift together one quart of flour, one third teaspoonful sugar, two teaspoonsful baking powder. Rub in one third cup butter. Add three eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and sufficient milk to make a thin bat ter. Cook in hot waffle waffle irons TAFT ASKS RAISE IN POSTAL RATES Urges Adoption Of Commission's Recommendation On Second-Class Mail. PROFIT IN POSTAL SERVICE For the First Time in History the Department Made Money—Adoption of Parcel Post System Again Is Urged. Washington, Feb. 22.—According to the annual report of Postmaster General Hitchcock transmitted to congress today the postoffice department, for the first time in history, shows a profit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. Accompanying the document was the report of the commission on second-class mail matter appointed by joint resolution of congress on March 4 of last year and a brief message of the president, in which he called attention to the principal features of the two reports. Would Increase Second-Class Rates. The report of the commission on second-class mail matter makes the following recommendations: 1. The rate of 2 cents a pound on copies mailed by publishers to subscribers, to news agents, and as sample copies, and by news agents to their subscribers or to other news agents. 2. The rate of 1 cent for each 4 ounces for copies mailed by other than publishers and news agents; that is, the present transient rate. 3. The present free-in-county privilege retained, but not extended. The commission also recommended that the cent-a-copy rate for newspapers other than weeklies and for periodicals not exceeding 2 ounces in weight, and the 2-cent-a-copy rate for periodicals exceeding 2 ounces in weight, when mailed at a city letter-carrier office for local delivery, be abolished. As to the effect and adequacy of the proposed increase of 1 cent a pound in postage the commission says: "Such an increase will not, in the opinion of the commission, bring distress upon the publishers of newspapers and periodicals, or seriously interfere with the dissemination of useful news or information. A reasonable time should be allowed, after the rate is fixed, before it is put into effect. While the new rate will be very far from compensating the government for the carriage and handling of second-class matter, it will to some extent relieve the existing burden and result in a more equitable adjustment of rates." Both the president and the postmaster general concur in the recommendations. President Taft again concurs in the recommendation of the Postmaster General for the adoption of a parcel post system, suggesting the inauguration of such a service on rural routes and in the city delivery service first. Ownership of Telegraph Opposed. Hitchcock's recommendation for government ownership of the telegraph lines under the supervision of the postal service is not approved of by the president. Regarding this he says: "There is only one recommendation in which I can not agree—that is one which recommends that the telegraph lines in the United States should be made a part of the postal system and operated in conjunction with the mail system. This presents a question of government ownership of public utilities which are now being conducted by private enterprise under franchises from the government. I believe that the true principle is that private enterprise should be permitted to carry on such public utilities under due regulation as to rates by proper authority rather than that the government should itself conduct them. This principle I favor because I do not think it in accordance with the best public policy thus greatly to increase the body of public servants." The report of the Postmaster General is full of statements of changes in the organization and methods of the postal service made since the last annual report, and of tentative drafts of legislation embodying certain recommendations of the department which need legislation to carry them out. It also calls attention to the fact that the revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, amounted to $237,879,822.60 and that the expenditures amounted to $237,660,705.48, making a surplus of $219,118.12. The report shows that the postal savings system was begun experimentally in January, 1911, and that it has now been extended so as to include 7,500 presidential post offices, which includes practically all of the post offices of that class. Preparations are also being made to establish the system at about 40,000 fourth-class offices. "I would rather be happy than be rich," he declared. "Oh, yes, so would I," she replied, "but one might as well try to be happy without being rich as to be an angel without having to die." THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, ..... KANSAS. Founded in 1898 by W. N. Miller. MRS. W. N. MILLER, Proprietor. N. B. COFELAND, Manager. Residence 1401 West 23d Street. Office: 630 N. Main Street. Residence Phone, Market 4090 X Phone your news items to us. "To Live and Let Live" is Our Motto. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Strictly in Advance. One Year (by mail).....$1.00 Six Months (by mail).....7.5 Three Months (by mail).....5.0 Advertising Rates made known on application. Liberal commission paid to agents. Entered at the Postoffice at Wichita, Kansas, as Second-Class Mall Matter. Published Every Saturday at 630 N. Main Street. All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Thursday noon to reach publication in the current issue. 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About $800.00 is already been pledged. If you want a good meal go to Mrs. R. H. Todd's Cafe. Wait! and Watch! for the date of play to be given soon by the Vasri Girls. Some Cheerful givers make specialty of handing out lemons. Let us be your Printers We will treat you right. Prices always reasonable Haslings Tables With Tiden Lock Stand for Quality --- Rev. C. A. Williams, pastor of St. Paul A. E Church, says; he is preparing for a great Reviv al shortly. Mrs. Sally Rawles has return ed from a visit to Turon. Mrs. J. L. Harper and Miss. Stella Turner, attended a reception at Wellington Wednesday of last week, the guests of Mrs. E. Roberts. The Gleaners"The Young Peoples Club of the A. M. E Church Maurice Jones, Captain, give an excellent entertainment at the Church on last Monday eve. Misses. Ida Wilson entertained a number of her friends Saturday evening. Wm. Neely has returned from a visit in Mo. W. T. Vernon Clnb will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of E. D. Patterson 1122 South Washington Ave, Feb. 29. The W, T. Vernon Club was royally entertained at the beautifull home of Mrs, Mc. Adams Thursday Feb. 22. Thomas Glover has returned from Hutchinson where he went to attend a meeting of the Y, M, C, A. Miss. Alice Wilson just returned from a trip to Hutchinson Ks where she lives, Wesley Rawies is all in smiles. John D, Jones visited in Kans, City last week. The ladies of the G L. A Club held a most interesting meeting, on Tuesday afteruocn at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Harper, they will meet next with Miss. Stella Turner. The Jolly three was entertained by Miss. Ida Wilson on Tuesday evening Fed. 20. Music was furnished by Miss. Bessie Frame The guests were Misses. Bessie Frame, Esther Hurst, and Mr. Edgar Wells at a late hour "Interuban Sundies" and cake was served. Notice To Public. The Wichita, Searchlight may change hands the first of March if so all bills due previous to the time will be collected by Mrs. W. N. Miller. All mail can be sent to the office for me just the same, until notified. Thanking all who so kindly assisted me in keeping the paper alive. Mrs. WN Miller. Miss Esther Hurst entertained a few of her friends Sunday, afternoon at her residence 518 N. Water in honor of Miss. Maud Foust of Newton and Mr. Sylvester Wells of Anthony. The evening was spent in music and conversation. Menue was as follows Fruit Jello, Marshmallow Cake Chocolate with Marshmallows. Those who enjoyed the hospitality were Misses; Ethel Woodard Pansy Cox, Mae Triplett, Ida Wilson, Edith Johnson, Bessie Frame, Maud Foust Beatrace Burks, Mrs. B. Woodard, and Myrtle Crouch, Messrs; John D. Jones, Sylvester Wells, Winfield Burks' Crawford Neely, Jack Hart, Edgar Wells, and Ambrose Woodard. All departed declaring Miss. Hurst an ideal entertainer. Dr. A. K. Lawrence PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Phones 517 N. Main St. Bell4634 DISEASES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN A SPECIALTY R. B. R. B. 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If it has not displaced it has at least supplemented rice, the great life-supporting grain, which from time immemorial has been grown in the far east; but Indian corn is an antipodal product, having come, as history teaches us, from the neighborhood of the isthmus of Tehuantepec, in North America. The potato came originally from South America. But here it is necessary to pause a moment to state that what is really meant by the word potato is the plant and tuber vulgarly called the Irish or white potato, although it has no more relation to the Emerald Isle than that the good people there are very fond of it. The misnamed "sweet" potato has no right whatever to the title. That pleasant vegetable belongs to the morning-glory family, botanically being known as Ipomoea batatas. to the other family, because the batata is a native term for the real potato as well. Again, it is unjustly suspected that this sweet potato is the vegetable actually brought by Drake and Hawkins into England, where it masqueraded for some years as the genuine South American food of contemporary rumor. It must be understood, however, that the sweet potato is likewise a native of America, but its original home was probably the West Indies and Central America. At any rate, it grows in the tropics and subtropics and finds its climatic limitations at about the temperature and altitude at which the Irish potato begins to thrive. The yam is another appellation of the sweet potato, although that, too, is an error, for the yams—dioscoreae—belong to a group of climbing plants. A number of varieties are found throughout the tropics and subtropics, and they are cultivated in both the East and the West Indies. Other roots and tubers may resemble the potato, and the tomato is related to it, but they must not be confounded with the far better known vegetable, which alone is entitled to the name. The commercial and domestic classification is stronger, however, than the scientific and therefore no attempt should be made to separate them in the popular mind. The common, or white, or Irish potato is undoubtedly American all through. Its prehistoric and aboriginal habitat was the western slopes of the southern continent, from the neighborhood of Quito in Ecuador, or as some claim even from that of Bogota in Colombia, to the central region of Chile. Botanically, the potato is a solanum, one of the most diversified plants of the vegetable kingdom. Something like 1,000 varieties have been described, but, assuming that several of these are not substantially accurate, there remain at least 800 which are well known. It is remarkable that only about 40 varieties have pinnate leaves and produce tubers on the roots beneath the ground, and that these special varieties are obligate of American origin. All these tuberous, pinnate-leaved kinds of the solanum are nearly related and very probably have a common origin. This first habitat of the potato has been laid by some students, quite as much for the sake of poetic harmony as for historic exactitude, in Central America near the home of the primitive maize, but in all fairness South America deserves and will hold the honor. The edible potato, from which all the European and American variations have been developed, was undoubtedly cultivated by even the inhabitants of the west coast of South America who occupied the land before the arrival of the Incas. When the Spanish conquerors arrived there, they found one great source of food supply in this native vegetable. In Peru, however, it was not a coast product, for the climate there seemed unfavorable, and what happened to grow on the lower levels were small, insignificant and watery. The best kind of potato grew at an altitude of about 7,000 feet, back of Lima; it was small, round, with a thin skin, and was yellowish inside (papa amarilla). In southern Peru, not far from Mollendo, but among the foggy regions (June to September), up among the rocky hills, the potato has been found wild. Passing farther along the coast into Chile, where the climate is quite temperate and consequently is suitable, even near the coast, for such vegetables, there is found that other form HARVESTING POTATOES IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA A BARREITUL OF SELECT POTATOES POTATO PARINGS POTATO PARINGS CUTTING OFF SPROUTS of the indigenous potato, the Maglia, which so attracted the attention of Darwin when he made his famous voyage in the Beagle. As far south as the Chonos Archipelago (about 45 degrees south) this plant grows wild near the sea. The potatoes from it resemble English potatoes, and have the same smell, but do not stand cooking so well. Little effort seems to have been made to develop the original tubers, although they form a good part of the food of the people, yet in this neighborhood the island of Chiloe alone has about 25,000 acres under cultivation, of the 123,000 acres devoted to potatoes in all Chile. That the Europeans found potatoes in Quito and Bogota need not be denied, but there is no strong reason for supposing that it was more than the same plant already mentioned, transported thither before they came. Quite another story is uncovered along the coast of South America. There the potato is considered a European vegetable and is cultivated only by those whose experiences are derived from the old world. No tradition connects the few remaining natives with a past in which the potato flourished, and in the minor instances in which the "wild potato" has been found, experiment shows that it is inedible and perhaps even poisonous. This is the case in the "wild potato" of Paraguay. Such a plant has for years been known to exist in the basin of the River Parana. It grows on the plains, budding in March and April, and ripening during the winter months of May to August. The tubers are about the size of a walnut and sometimes larger, soft and watery, full of irritating solania (the active alkaloid of the potato), and of a poor taste. They are not eaten nor are they cultivated; the so-called edible potato is considered an imported vegetable, foreign to native experience and judgment, while the vegetable that takes the place of potato in all native dietary is the "mandioca," which has been prepared as a food from time immemorial by the pre- columbian inhabitants. The food potato of commerce made its way, therefore, from its prehistoric home in the Andes to North America and via Europe to the eastern shores of South America. Great credit belongs also to Sir Francis Drake, who learned of the potato about 1578, either in Peru itself or in some near-by island. He took specimens back with him, stopping first in Virginia, where he helped to plant them in 1585. In 1586 he arrived in England, carrying potatoes among his treasures, and thus the story arose that potatoes came from North America. Closely allied to this error that other, which confused the South American ers and makes l or seed—but prac been give nally ig tion ther spread o strations Luther POTATO SEEDS FROM THE BALLS' or FRUIT THE FIELD Sir Walter Raleigh, "and then give me my opinion." At the first flavor of this strange vegetable he was delighted, and ever afterwards gave particular attention to increasing his supply of the wonderful potato. his supply By such experiences the potato was spread over Europe. In France it was a rare but prized vegetable in 1616; in Germany it was recognized in 1650, and from that time on, Eur- ean, as well as other parts of the world, gradu- ally accepted it as an addition to the food supply of all peoples. It is unwise to discuss here the mooted point about the so-called indi- igenous potato of Mexico and Arizona; about the origin of the S. commersonii in Uruguay and Argentina; for the settlement of it cannot disturb the fact that the Solanum tuberosum, the common potato of today, came from the west coast of South America, and that the natives of these regions must be given credit of having recognized its food value long before they were discovered by Europeans. The widespread botanical order of the solanaceae, to which our potato belongs, embraces plants of little aparent similarity. There are, as members of the great family, among medicinal plants, for example, the hyoscyamus, dulcamara, belladonna, and datura; among food supplies are the thorn apple (a tree, in this case), the artichoke, and the tomato; and adding to man's enjoyment if not to his vital sustenance, the capsicum or the chile of commerce, and the American tobacco. Not many of them have tubers, however, and of the tubers, the potato holds the prize for its usefulness in human economy. The tuber of the plant we are interested in is the common potato. Now, the tuber is a curious provision of nature which by propagation can be carried on by means of the regular and normal plant activity of the seed above ground, and also by anomalous stems, enlarged by the development, to an unusual degree, of cellular tissue, which are below the ground. Potatoes have seeds and fruit like any other member of the botanic kingdom, but when left to themselves it may happen that more energy is expended in storing up food in the tubers, so that flowers and seeds are imperfect. Theoretically it makes little difference which element—tuber or seed—is used for perpetuation of the potato, but practically so much encouragement has been given to the tuber that the seed is habitually ignored. Incidentally it deserves mention that the popular Burbank potato, the spread of which was one of the earliest demonstrations of the genius of the botanical wizard, Luther Burbank was propagated from the potato with what is now known as the sweet potato, the "batata," samples of which surely came from Virginia somewhat earlier than this time. It is probable that Drake gave potatoes to Raleigh. At any rate, it is an accepted statement that Sir Walter Raleigh was responsible for their use in Ireland, because he gave several to the grandfather of Sir Robert Southwell, who, to check the famine spreading in that island after the disastrous failure of the grain crop, cultivated them at once there, and popularized their use to his eternal credit. John Gerard, a celebrated English botanist, grew them in England, following the example of Raleigh, who ordered his own gardener, with a utilitarian purpose, to cultivate them along with other vegetables. The story runs that this man, whose curiosity was intensely aroused by the new plant from America, watched its growth carefully, and when the fruit (sic) was ripe, gleefully plucked it it. As he found this part of the plant merely insipid, he spat it out In disgust, and complained to Sir Walter that he had wasted so much time upon the miserable thing: "Is this, then, your delicious fruit from America?" The reply started the gardener, for he was told to drag up the offender by the roots, for fear that the other plants might be contaminated. On doing so, however, he was astonished to discover among them a mass of exactly the same kind of tubers he had planted in the spring. "Cook them," said seed, as he had noticed what splendid fruit certain plants were showing, and reasoned correctly that the product must equal the parent. Exactly what the tuber is, is another question. By some its production is ascribed to a fungous irritation, although this is not proved. As has been said, not all the solanaceae have tubers, nor are all tubers members of the family. Be the cause what it may, the tuber is not a true root, but a leafless branch, usually below yet sometimes above the ground; the eyes on a tuber are leaf buds which in due time lengthen into shoots and form stems. The contents of a tuber are a reserve supply of food, supporting the young growth until it can put forth roots of its own. The food supply in the potato, is shown by analysis to be about as follows: Parts. Starch, etc. 18.8 Nitrogenous matters 2.1 Sugar 3.2 Fat 0.2 Salines 0.7 Water 75.0 Total 100.0 although of course variations in these proportions, depending upon soil, climate and methods of cultivation, are to be expected. It is evident, therefore, that the potato is not a perfect food, and that it lacks sufficient nitrogenous matter while having a superabundance of starch and sugar. That does not destroy its value nor its usefulness, by any means, nor its popularity, for next to Indian corn and rice, the potato is the most widely used vegetable in the world. Today no hopeful settler, after trecking into a virgin wilderness, thinks his little garden complete without the pretty patch of potatoes; no domestic or public meal is served without its tuberous embellishment, and after mastering the art of boiling eggs, the next step of the young housewife is to learn how to prepare potatoes. The grand total of potato production for one year amounts to about 5,500,000,000 bushels, and this gigantic crop comes from every continent in the world. Over one-fourth of the output is grown in Germany; not quite one-eighth from Russia; usually a little less even than that, from Austria-Hungary; about one-ninth from France; about one-sixteenth from Poland, and a slightly less quantity from (contiguous) United States. In the United States, almost one-third of the year's crop is grown in the North Atlantic states, but the group of North Central states east of the Mississippi river runs a close second; of the other subdivisions, the Central states west of the Mississippi are next in importance, and the far Western states are fourth. This illustrates one fact about the potato; it is very susceptible to climate and cultivation. Left to nature, it is only a moderately prolific plant, and cannot thrive in a country too hot or too cold, but has its habitat essentially in the temperate zone; on the other hand, it responds readily to good care, so that the more it is nursed the better does it grow. The few rules to follow in successful potato growing can be learned by any farmer. First the soil must be suitable, but this is not hard to find. It must be light, so as to offer no great resistance to the enlargement of the tubers; well supplied with organic matter, yet no more than moist, and containing abundance of natural fertilizing ingredients. Well drained sandy loam is excellent; clay should be avoided. Crop rotation is advisable, as the potato bears well after certain preceding crops, but may wither if succeeding itself too regularly. Liberal manure is necessary, but of the right kind. The rows should be laid off as close together as practicable without interfering with horse cultivation, and generally speaking the seed pieces should be dropped about 12 inches apart in furrows made in the level field and on the ridges, yet deep enough—say four inches—to afford ample cover to them. It must be mentioned that in speaking of potatoes the word "seed" means the tuber or portions cut from it in which an "eye" has formed; the botanical seed may be used, but no benefit is derived from that method; care must be taken, however, that the sprouts from the eye are not injured, and it is best, therefore to use eyes from which sprouts have not appeared. The uses of the potato as a food have long ago been vindicated. Nothing can dislodge it. Not even the latest discovered dashen, a Japanese and Chinese clalmant to tuberous popularity, will take its place, even though it may be proved to possess more protein than the South American predecessor. Whole books have been written on the culinary art of cooking the potato. Boiled, baked, stewed, or fried, it has been a garnishment to the more aristocratic dishes of every feast since it was discovered, and has supplied many a full meal to the humble masses who do the world's work. Nothing but a poem could tell its praises, and a sonnet is the least tribute through which our gratitude to Peru should be expressed. As a source of industrial alcohol, especially that substance which is commercially known as denatured alcohol, potatoes are being regarded as of increasing value. Next to food, however, the greatest value to mankind of the American potato is a source of starch. In this, too, it vies with corn. Potato starch is every year proving its merit, and whatever can provide starch, has a long popularity ahead of itself. Starch is one of the essentials of civilization. Its uses are protean, the demand for it is unceasing, and for both art and industry the supply must be constant. 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Hoh- mann, 2764 "Lincoln Ave.,” Chicago, Il, writes: “L suffered with catarrh of the bron. chial tubes and had a terrible cough ever since a child. “I would sit up in bed with pillows propped up behind me, but still the cough would not let me) sleep. I thought and everybody else that I had consump- tion, “So reading the papers about Pe- runa I decided to try, without the least bit of hope that it would do me any good. But after tak ing. three bottles I noticed a change. My — appetite got better, so I kept on, Mre. Hohmann. never’ discouraged. Finally I seemed not to cough so much and the pains in my chest’ got better and I could rest at might. “Tam well now and cured of a chronic cough and sore throat. I. cannot tell you bow grateful Lam, and 1. cannot Yank Peruna enough.” Te has cured where doctors have” failed and 1 talk Peruse wherever I go, recommend it. to everybody. 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Andrew Carnegie was giving advice on a recent Sunday to one of the younger members of the Rockefeller Bible class. “I am an advocate of early mar- riages,” he said. “The right man, in the right place, at the right time, 1s @ very good saying, and to my mind, the right man in the right place at the right time ts unquestionably a husband reading to his wife on a winter's night beside the radiator. Gi agi dive iRventieen. “Man is the creator of his own hap- piness; it is the aroma of a life lived fn harmony with high {deals. For what a mau has, he may be dependent on others; what heis, rests with him alone. What he obtains in life is but acquisition; what he attains, 1s growth. Happiness {s the soul's Joy in the possession of the intangible.”"— ¥rom Self-Control, by William George sordan. Some women are peculiar, and some others ave more ‘so. From Our Ovens To Your Table Untouched by human hands— Toasties —the aristocrat of Ready- to-Serve foods. A table dainty, made of white Indian corn—present- ing delicious flavour and wholesome nourishment in new and appetizing form. The steadily increasing sale of this food speaks volumes in behalf of its excellence. An ‘order for a package of Post Toasties from your grocer will provide a treat for the whole family. “The Memory Lingers”’ Fostum Cereal Company, Limited ‘Battle Greek, Michigan Wiliam Brens,D.D., Director Bb Aron pdr Bible asdiave, Chicaga, LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 25. BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS. (PESSON TENTAafark 10-1; abate “MEMORY VERSES—Matt. 4:3-4. GOLDEN TEXT Por in thac te Him- seit’ hath suffered being tempted, He 1s Sble to. succor them that are tempted. gre toe" Heb. 2:18. AAS Three things deserve special notice in connection with the scene of the baptism of Christ: ‘The baptism it welf, the descending dove, and the heavenly voice. The baptism of Christ is connected with the fact that Christ was thirty years old. This was the age when Le- vitical priests were set apart and con- secrated to their office. The baptism, therefore, bas reference to the priestly office of Christ. By submitting to bap- tism Jesus identifies himself with the ‘world’s sin. Christ's baptism then was not per- sonal—for he himself was sinless. ‘The lesson tells us that while others, after their baptism, stood confessing their sins in the Jordan, he immedi- ately went up out of the water, for he had no sins to confess—but official and representative. Christ submitted to the same baptism which the genera- tion of vipers had received, not be- cause he was one of them, but because he was their representative, and had come to take upon himself their sins. Christ, in submitting to John’s bap- tism, set his seal upon the divinely appointed ministry of John as the ful fillment of the Old Testament prophecy. He recognized in John’s baptism God’s plan for him, and he submitted to it, without questioning. If any man in his own right did not need baptism, it was Christ. By this act, Jesus set his seal upon the rite of baptism, a rite which may be aban- doned only when it no longer teaches any truth. Rebellion against customs and rites for rebellion’s sake is vicious individualism. The descent of the Holy Spirit indi. cates Christ's equipment for his serv- fee. In his sermon in the synagogue he referred to this truth when he sald, the spirit of the Lord God is resting upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel. Even Christ could not accomplish his life work without the aid of the divine spirit. Nor can we. ‘The voice from heaven could scarce- Jy have been heard by Christ without his associating it with the identifica. tion of himself with the servant of the Lord in the prophecy of Isaiah (chap- ters 42 to 60). The temptation is closely allied to the baptism of Christ; indeed, it is based on the proclaimed sonship of the baptism. From this we learn that the greatest temptations ofttimes, in- deed generally follow the greatest blessings. The temptation was a real event, and not a mere mental or soul strug- gle. The personality of Satan is as evident as the personality of Christ in the narrative. Nor is there any- thing in the story to indicate that it 1s ap allegory, but everything predi- cates a reality. ‘All of the temptatlOns were along the line of Christ’s intention to estab- lish the Kingdom of God in the world. Satan’s suggestion to Christ was to take a short cut to the obtaining of the Kingdom The adversary did not ask Christ to do a siagle wrong thing; he did suggest doing right things in a wrong way and with wrong ‘motives. There is nothing wrong in being hungry and satisfying hunger, but it is sinful to use wrong measures to satisfy even so natural an appetite. Nor is it wrong to trust in the word ‘and promises of God for deliverahce when we find ourselves in places of danger, but it is wrong to unnecessar- ily place ourselves in compromising ‘positions because of the temptations of the evil one, and then presume to rely | upon the promises of God to extricate us from a position into which we have thus been brought. Such is not an act of faith, but of presumption—it fs tempting the Lord God. Nor is it wrong to engage in the act of worship, ‘but it is sinful to worship anything ies anybody other than God. | Christ’s method of victory is signi- ficant, He does not resort to dazzling {inventions or manifest any attempt at ‘shrewdness in his answers. He does not even try to be original. He goes to the quiver of God’s word, and takes out an arrow that had been polished by much use, and hurls it at the ad- versary. He exemplies the psalmist’s expression: “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” No doubt Jesus quoted from memory. Herein lies the bless- Ing of learning gospel texts, and of storing the memory with scripture. Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are. We must not think that these three temptations were the only ones Christ endured, even in the wild- erness. The narrative says that “When Satan had finished all the (whole cycle of) temptations, he left him for @ season.” This implies that there were other temptations, and that his whole life was beset by temptations. There is not a single note in the BOATMAN HAD HIS OWN IDEA Absence of Expected “Tip” Brought Out Excellent Sample of Real Irish Wit. A good story of Irish reparthe has been published concerning John Bright. He was always ready for sal- mon fishing, and on several occasions went to Ireland with Mr. George Pea- body, the American philanthropist. One day Mr. Bright, noticing a po- iceman on the bank, inquired of him what sum the boatman were entitied to ask for rowing up the Shannon on a day's fishing. He said that from seven shillings and sixpence to ten shillings was the usual payment. Mr. Bright said to Mr. Peabody. “Have you three half-crowns? I have no change.” | Mr. Peabody produced the money and gave it to the boatman. He was ‘Uissatisfled, and said: | “And fs that all ye're giving me?” | “That is all,” replied Mr. Peabody. “Well, that bates all I iver heard,” answered the boatman. “An’ they call ye Paybody. Faith, I should cali ‘ye Pay-nobody!" eae anes Oe LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA “While attending school at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1882, I became afllicted with bolls, which lasted for about two years, when the affliction assumed the form of, an eczema on my face, the lower part of my face being inflamed most of the time. There would be water-blisters rise up and open, and wherever the weter would touch {t would burn, and cause another one to rise. After the blister would open, the place would scab over, and would burn and itch ¢0 as to be almost un- bearable at times. In this way the sores would spread from one place to another, back and forth over the whole of my upper Hp and chin, and at times the whole lower part of my face would be a solid sore. This con- dition continued for four or five years, without getting any better, and in fact got worse all tho time, so much 80 that my wife became alarmed lest it prove fatal. “During all this time of boils and eczema, I doctored with the best phy- sicians of this part of the country, but to no avail, Finally I decided to try Cuticura Remedies, which I did, tak- ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying the Cuticura Ointment to the sores, and using the Cuticura Soap for wash- ing. In a very short time I began ‘to notice improvement, and continued to use the Cuticura Remedies until I was well again, and have not had a re- currence of the trouble since, which 1s over twenty years. I have recom- mended Cuticura Remedies to others ever since, and have great faith in them as remedies for skin diseases.” (Signed) A. C. Brandon, Attorney-at- Law. Greenville, O. Jan. 17, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap ‘and Oint ment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mafled free on application to “Cutt ura.” Dept. L, Boston. AS SCHEDULED, Ge SESS KY ENG AN Ss BNOINS WY 3 . GQ = SS hg SS yp AS Kg <a fame = Mr. Booze—Well—hic—you married me for better or worse—hic—didn’t you? Mrs. Booze—Yes, and I got the worst of it. . RESTORED TO HEALTH. After Suffering with Kidney Disorders for Many Years. Mrs, John S. Way, 2098, 8th St., In- dependence, Kans., says: “For a num- ber of years I was a victim of disor- dered kidneys. My back ached con- stantly, the passage of the kidney secre tions was irregular and my feet and an- kles badly swollen. Spots appeared be- fore my eyes and I was very nervous. stenthy, “he . passage of the kidney secre my tions was irregular je “OR and my fect and an. 4. £4 kles. badly swollen, EQ Spots appeared be- ga fore my eyes and 1 gdp e was very nervous. eyes h ype After using numerous “Yee remedies without relief, I was com pletely cured by Doan’s Kidney Pills. In view of my advanced age, my cure seems remarkable.” “When Your Back Is Lame, Remem- ber the Name-DOAN’S. 50¢. all stores, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Only to find our duty certainly, and somewhere, somehow, to do it faith- fully, makes us good, strong. happy, and useful men.—Phillips Brooks. Mra, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Obildres teething, softens the gums, reduces Infamma tion, allays pain. cures wind colic, 256 a bowie A mirror often prevents a woman dnoen guttines lanescna; FLAX GROWING IS PROFITABLE WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BE- COMING RICH IN ITS PRODUCTION, ‘So much has been written regarding the great amount of money made out of growing wheat in the prairie prov- inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Western Canada, that many other products of the farms are over- looked. These provinces will always grow large areas of wheat—both spring and winter—and the yields will continue to be large, and the general average greater than in any other portion of the continent. Twenty, thir- ty, forty, and as high as fifty bushels per acre of wheat to the acre—yields unusual in other parts of the wheat growing portions of the continent— have attracted world-wide attention, but what of oats, which yield forty, fifty and as high as one hundred and ten bushels per acre and carry off the world’s prize, which, by the way, was also done by wheat raised in Sas- katchewan during last November at the New York Land Show. And then, there is the barley, with its big yields, and its excellent samples. Another money-maker, and a big one is flax, ‘The growing of flax is extensively car- ried on in Western Canada. The writer has before him a circular is- sued by a prominent farmer at Saska- toon. The circular deals with the treatment of seed flax, the seeding and harvesting, and attributes yields of less than 20 bushels per acre, to later seeding, imperfect and illy-pre- pared seed. He sowed twenty-five pounds of seed per acre and had a yield of twenty-nine bushels per acre. ‘This will probably dispose of at $2.50 per acre. Speaking of proper prepa- ration of seed and cultivation of soil and opportune sowing, in the circular spoken of there is cited the case of a Mr. White, living fourteen miles south of Rosetown, “who had fifteen acres of summer fallow a year ago last summer, upon which he produced thirty-three bushels to the acre, when many in the district harvested for want of crop. Now, there can be no proper reason advanced why such a crop should not have been produced on all the lands of the same quality in the adjacent district, provided they had been worked and cared for in the same manner. This year (1911) the same man had one hundred acres of summer fallow, had something over 8,800 bushels of wheat. He also had 1,800 bushels of oats and 300 bushels of flax.” There are the cattle, the horses, the roots and the vegetable produets of Western Canada farms, all of which individually and collectively deserve special mention, and they are treated of in the literature sent out on appl eption by the Government agents. Newspaper Is the Medium. “The importance of this whole ques tion of publicity to the consumer is growing on the manufacturer. He sees his competitor or some man in another line turning the trick of pub: licity and he sits up and thinks. He is gradually realizing that localized, crystallized publicity in the home is what pays best and that he can only get that through the newspaper.’— ‘The Daily Club. 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TEMPLE5. Rev. F.ank Wilson, C. G. M. 1—A. H. Richardson, Weir, Kan., Sir L. W. Stewart, Box 481; 1-3 Fri. 3—R. H. Cane, Atchison, Kan., Sir Jno. N. Davis, 521 "L,"; 1-3 Fri. 4—Evening Star, Omaha, Neb., Sir S. R. Jackson care Frye Shoe Co.; 1-3 Mon. 5—St. Luke, N. Topeka, Kan., Sir Joe Walker, 1220 West (north); 1-3 Thurs. 6—Humphrey, Omaha, Neb., Sir W. H. Jackson, 2515 N. 17th. 7—Mt. Nebo, Wichita, Kan., Sir. Rev. d. S. Washington, 1524 N. Washington; 1-3 Fri. 4—St. Peters, Ft. Scott, Kan., Sir Robt. Allison; 1-3 Tues. TEMPLE6. 10—Mt. Horeb, Leavenworth, Kan. Geo. Walker 417 Kiowa. 11—Taborian, Wichita, Kan., Sir Chau. Taylor 623 N. Wichita 1-3 Thurs. 12—Moses Dickson, Parsons, Kan., Sir W. N. Williams, 2201 Corning; 1-3 Thurs. 16—Silver Leaf, Salina, Kan., Sir J. C. Hudson care Hudson Grocery Co. 17—Golden Gate, Coffeyville, Kan. Sir N. N. Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe; 1-3 Wed. 19—Mt. Tabor, Lawrence, Kan., Stg W. H. Jones, care Santa Fe Depot; 2-4 Thurs. 24—Jas. H. Bedford, Cherryvale, Kan., Sir Rev. J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th. 26—Washington, Kansas City, Kan., Sir J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell; every Friday. 59—Sunnyside, Topeka, Kan., Sir Peter Davis, 1008 Washburn; 1-3 Thurs. 60—Jeffersonlan, Topeka, Kan., Sir U. S. Grant, 120 Kansas; 1-3 Mon. 72—Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Sir J. L. Wright, 1st Nat'l Bank. TABERNACLES Rev. Frank Wilson, C. G. M. Mrs. Emma Gaines, C. G. P. 1—Queen of the West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Malinda George, 603 State Ave.; 1-3 Wed. 2—Golden, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Ella Weston, 709 Buckeye; 2-4 Sat. 3—Mt. Hope, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Mary Goss. 2423 Jewett 1-3 Fri. 4—Helping Hand, Cherryvale, Kan. mrs. Ella Jones, 630 W. 4th; 1-3 Thurs. 5—Crescent, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Hattie Montgomery, 115 N. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 6—Rebecca Ann, Ottawa, Kan., Miss Katherine Glaspie, 128 Mulberry; 1-3 Thurs. 7—Sunbeam, Salline, Kan., Mrs. Lilian Shobe, 437 S. 12th; 1-4 Fri. 8—Rebecca May, Coffeyville, Kan. Mrs. Laura Donnell, 410 E. 5th; 2-4 Fri. 9—Western Sun, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Lula Delley, 120 Kansas Ave; 1-3 Fri. 10—St. Marla, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Carrie Davis, 446 Main; 1-3 Wed. 11—Rebecca Saba Mereo, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. J. A. Smith, 847 Freeman; 1-3 Mon. 12—Golden Rule, Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. B. Johnson, 211 Stew- an; 1-3 Mon. 15—America Davis, Weir, Kan., Mrs. Maggie Stewart, Box 14; 2-4 17—Western Queen, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. A. Masir, 317 E. Wqll; 1-3 Sat. 18—St. Marie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. E Patterson, 2115 Nicholas; 2-4 Thurs. 19—Amelia Levels, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Ella Golden, 2302 N. 25th. 20—Maria, Ft. Scott, Kan., Mrs. P Johnson, 501 Hyman; 1? Frl. 21 Queen Sheba, Oswego Kan., Mrs. Nancy Landis, Box 144 2-4 Thu 24—Charity Rose, Coffeyville, Kan.; Mrs. A. Garner, 704 E. 12th; 1-3 Wed. 28—Modern, Parsons, Kan., Mrs. D. Dorsey, 716 E. 15th; 1-3 Thurs 29—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. H. La Tand, 407 Kickapoo; 1-3 Tue. 30—Victoria, Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Ella McKinnis, 217 Sherman; 1-3 Fri. 32 Emma Gaines, Butte, Mont., Mrs Salina Easterns, 334 Dakota [rear] 34—Wichita, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Salie Hall, 1024 Ohio; 1-3 Thurs 35—Golden Rule, So. Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Sadie Jones, 819 N. 27th; 1-3 Thurs. 37—Eutevator, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mamie Sloss, 1121 Oak; 1-3 Fri. 38—Covenant, Weir, Kan., Mrs. L. Washington; 2-4 Wed. 39 Deborah, Abeline, Kansas, Mrs. Mable Baskerville. 2-4 Thurs 52—Mt. Maria, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Cora Yeager 26 Main; 2-4 Thurs. 63—Fair West, Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Rosa Saunders, 716 N. J; 1-3 Fri. 77—Pearly Rose, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Jennie B. Taylor, General Deliv. 85—Magdalene, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. M. Richardson, 1425 Van Buren. 89—Queen Lizzie, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. N. L. Hibbs, 2805 Cummings. 91—Golden Sheaf, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th; 1-3 Thurs. 92—St. Annis, Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. L. D. Davis, 3833 P; 2-4 Fri. 93—Macedonia, Topeka, Kan., Mrs. S. A. Brown, 15th and Washing ton; 1-3 Thurs. Rev. Frank Wilson. C. G. M. Mrs. Bessie Leah, H. G. Q. M. 1—Golden Leaf, Leavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Eliza Scott, S. 3rd; 4 Sat. 2—Frank Wilson, Ft. Scott, Kan. Mrs. Emma Maxey, 411 Ransom. 3—Moses Dickson, Wichita, Kan. Mrs. B. Brown, 813 N. Wichita 4—White Rose, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Lulu Ross, 433 Nebraska; 2-4 Sat. 5—New Hope, Coffeyville, Mrs. Ada Gilbert, 405 Santa Fe., 2-4 Wed. ton, 1-3 Sat. 7—Lone Rose, Yale, Kan., Mrs. Calle Lewis. 8—Golden Eagle, Iola, Kan., Mrs. Sarah Mayes, 20 Campbell. 10—Washington, Kansas City, Kan, Mrs. Effie Porter, 1036 Grand- view Blvd.; 1-3 Sat. 11—Alice Tucker, So. Omaha, Neb, Mrs. I. M. Faulkner, 169 N. 31st; 1-3 Sat. 11—Viola, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Mary Brown, 325 Miss; >4 Sat. 14—Busy Bee, Atchison Kan., Mrs. Aria Stone, 823 Main; 1-3 Sat. 15—Louisa Mae, Cherryvale, Kan, Mrs. M. E. Holt, 517 West Main. 16—Pearl, Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Anna Jones, 1457 Wabash Wichita; 2-4 Sat. 17—Castle Rock, Weir, Kan., Mrs. H. H. Askins, Box 25. 18—Star of West, Salina, Kan., A. O. Murrell, 633 S. 4th; 1-3 Sat 20—John Wilson, K. C., Kan., Mr. C. D. Dalton, 1228 Barnett; 2-4 Sat 21—Crystal, Leavenworth, Kan.; Mrs. Priscilla Lee, 419 Kiowa; 3 Sat. 2-4 Sat. 23—Clinging Rose, Lawrence, Kan., Mrs. Ada King, 722 N. Y., 3 sat. 26—Emma Gaines, Weir, Kan., Mary Stewart; 1-3 Sat. 28—20th Century, Parsons, Kan., K. A. L. Willis, 2215 Morgan.; 1 Sat. 36—Pride of Topeka, N. Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Sarah McElroy, 817 Lincoln; 1-3 Sat. 37—Pansy Blossom, Topeka, aKn., Mrs. Sally Lanear, 1209 Buchanan; 1-3 Sat. 44—Rising Sun, Atchison, Kan., Mrs. Mary Delley, 120 Kansas. 45—Orange Rose, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. P. Henderson, 312 Washington; 1-3 Sat. 46—Mayflower, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. L. Herrold, 2521 N. 17th; 1-3 Sat. ```markdown ``` TENTS. OFFICIAL ORGAN. The Wichita Searchlight. 630 N. 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Do You Read The Race Newspaper Have You Paid your Subscription TheSearchlight? --- Do You Read The Race Newspapers? Have You Paid your Subscription To TheSearchlight? The St. Paul A. M, E. Church are contemplating on having a Great Rally in the near future. Help them and they will help you. G I N G IN CIVILIZATION'S SCALE Jnknown Peoples of America Who Have Perished Utterly. Between the region occupied of old by the Aztecs and the realm far to the south over which the Incas ruled lies an immense stretch of territory, a thousand miles long and 800 wide, where the remains of unknown and wonderful civilizations are being discovered, says a writer in Van Nerlen's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica, in one section alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civilizations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great American museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who inhabited an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very existence has been hitherto lost in antiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its senile were not more symmetrical or beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt. Their cloth was of truly marvelous weaves; in beauty of design, richness of color and fineness of texture no fabric of to-day summers is Appeal To A C We the members of St. Pa grown our present and 525 N. Water St. and feeling and befitting place of worship progressive congregation and city of Wichita. We therefore assistance. The membership of exent that over $2,500.00 has scriptions for a site and buildi be thankfully received and fait Appeal To A Generous Public We the members of St. Paul A.. E. Church having out grown our present and much delapidated structure at 525 N. Water St. and feeling the reed of a mere comodious and befitting place of worship, commensurate with a growing progressive congregation and in keeping with the fastgrowing city of Wichita. We therefore take this occasion to appeal for assistance. The membership of the church has been taxed to the exent that over $2,500.00 has been raised by cash and subscriptions for a site and building purposes. Any amount will be thankfully received and faithfully applied. Kindly Help Us. TRUSTEES;- T. Glover, Ed. Landrum, F. S. Wilkins, J. S. Fa uver, . J. Dancy, . Perry and J. T. Chinneth, Clerk. C. A. Williams: Pastor TRUSTEES;- T. Glover. Ed. Fa uver, . J. Dancy, . 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Consplucious in the lot were the mayor and chief of police. Then came many solid and staid citizens. After every name was a number signifying the votes the owner of the name had received so far. Great was the wrath of the so-called "measest men." Friedberg was ordered to take the sign out of the window, but he refused to do so. His indictment for libel followed. In court he pleaded guilty, but assorted he did not know he was violating any law. White Plains Cor. New York Sun. When Tower Loomed. It was while Charlemagne Tower was ambassador to Russia that a New York city newspaper "spread itself upon a fete held at St. Petersburg. A green copy-reader produced this result: "As pleasing to the eye as was all this decoration there was additional pleasure in the sight, as one stood at the head of the Prospekt Nevska. of Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated, looming grand and imposing against the winter sky."—Success Magazine. Generous Public Jul A.. E. 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The best quality of work at prices that are RIGHT. ..PROGRESS.. As People Let Us Stand Togather. United we stand Devided we FALL. REMARKABLE IN THE DOG LINE Proud Owners of Pets, Listen to This from Flatbush, N. Y. Zip, a son of Bluff, the big bull terrier, is the most respected dog in Flatbush, N. Y., says a correspondent. He requires every other dog within 40 blocks to walk a chalk line and bow to him as he passes by. He can lick everything on four feet up to twice his size, yet is as mild as Devery-at-the Pump. His master attributes Zip's prowess to his fondness for the pipe. Like Old King Cole: He calls for his pipe. He calls for his ladies three. "That is the most remarkable dog in the world," says his master. "He takes my pipe out of my mouth and smokes it, standing on his hind feet. See! The stem is all chewed up! If the tobacco doesn't burn well, Zip will get down on his fours and chase all over the house to create a draught. When the fire is well started again he finishes his smoke and returns me the pipe. Strong? He ought to be named Samson. Why, we have a piano that weighs 600 pounds. Tie Zip to it with a rope and he will pull it all over the room." FORD'S HAIR POMADE FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HARSH, KINNY OR CURLY HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTER AND MORE PLABLE, EASY TO OMB AND PUP UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT UREXCELLED FOR PREVENTING HAIR FROM FALLING OUT DANDBROUF AND ICHING OF SCALE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUP UP IN 25+ AND 50+ BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE Whistling Sign of Contempt. A Moroccan shows his contempt of anything by whistling. A conflict between tribesmen and a battalion of French troops was recently precipitated by the whistling of a locomotive on a railway being constructed near Casablanca. "The glaours are laughing at us," said a chieftain, when the construction engine gave a toot to warn the natives at work on the line to look out. The Arabs went wild, mounted their horses, and rode on the whistling enemy. They had to be calmed with the whistling of rifle balls. ---